Chicago Daily Tribune Newspaper, November 15, 1877, Page 1

VOLUME XXXIIL i OA“I‘I,T GaBAT Rfln@t@y Iy PRIEES. ___GENERAL NOTICESN, .| HAMILTON, ROWE & C0.S S'I‘OOK BROTHERS. In order to reduce our im- mensestock of Carpets, wehave MARKED DOWN all our J0DY BRUSSELS, 'APESTRY BRUSSELS, INGRAINS, OIL CLOTHS, CURTAIN GOODS, &e., &e. Extraordinary Inducements. All who contemplate purchas- ing should examine our stock, which will be found at prices jower than any yet made’ in this market. 121 & 123 State-st. WA EIN, Injured - BY THE! GREAT.FIELD, LEITER & CO. FIRE, AND THEY ARBE Prepared as Usual to do Business. Cor. Sate & Washington-sts. NOTBURNEDOUT MANDEL BROS. Being located in APOLLINARIS| e iomesisee i deem it our duty to inform our numerous friends and custom- ers that we are NOT BURNED OUT, or in- jured in any way, but prepared to sup- ply the wants of the public in our numer- ous departments. 171 & 123 State-st. =\NOT BURNED OUT! BURLEY & TYRRELL, . WHOLESALE AND RETAIL Crockery, Lamps, Glasswar, and Holiday Goods, READY FOR BUSINESS, AS ‘US’UA.L. NINERAL WATER, The Queen of Table Waters. HIGHLY EFFERVESCENT, 18 DR A\. A\\ lll.. *+ A deltghitfu) beverage, IMONT), **Farsuperlor Mont grateful and DR, 1t. OC DOREMIUS. snd whelcromes siperfor Sruin alt the obfections urced againat artificially acrated wi SAtsalutely pure all for dally tses freo Crotun and “Imprege dogy Ling. EASLEE. **Usefal and very agreea R AUSTIN - FLINT, DIt OTIN PP o i O S exenof achie discase, ILJASES 1L AVOUD, o Mildly antactds acrees yapeptics, and where thero 13 o Kouty & i FORDYCR ll\l"fl’ll- “Il)’ far the most aiteeabic, alone G miised writh wine, usefulin rrhe of Stomach or Bladder, and in Gout. A IUQN M1MS. **Notonlyaluzury but A To le Lad of all Wine VrrthlnuxGmflu‘ Ty el 40 Sincral W ater Dealers througtiont 58 United $taicy, and wholesale of FREDK DE BARY & CO 11 & 43 WARR _ DNEWY ‘The thovo Mineral Wi ncn are lor rale by GROMMES & ULLRICH IMPORTENS OF WINES AXD LIQUOBS, 160, 301, AND 203 RANDOLPH-ST, feslatty to dent in bure, otralzht sour. thie njost approved make, and guare te puriey. DR ‘anec GENTLERENT OUR ASSORTMENT OF OVERCOATINGS AND Business Suitings NOTICE 1 :lmyl complol tanbe miade, 'y B0 I‘ cm ok [ow an mml work DIDWAY © NEW AN 205 West Madlson<et,, cor. Greon, Prot. James A, rnlm:. M. K €. V.8 E, lecturer pEar lnlhu!n otk ., Shin ol TELE BEST | Hdi, \ur.ymu':- 7 o W i T e uSIneSS Fney Casimeres.. 833 m':nf[nh i hotses fa got the b, m' o s |~‘r.u'l‘n- il xeheT I lnr i, Rullings, § Vine Eng. Sultings, mts 213, Hfii&“fld? " ITallors, 130 Dearborn BOOKN, AWurfl to Book Buyers We are preparcd to show, un- questionably, the largest and best stock of JUVENILIS in this eity, Now Books in general liternature constantly added to stock, PEMAQUID, by Mrs, Prentiss, recelved this duy. W. G, HOLMES, Tublisher and l!nul\flnller. 77 '\l.ullsm PIPN, &y “STEAWN PIPE Heating Coils, Radiators, and all Plpo hluu s, Hot Air Registers, &e., &t PIELDHUUSE DUTCHER & BELDEN, 5 ANUPAGTUREES, (,nrum' Cuuul aud Monr " n 5 have prodied by his advive (hrongl The Cataning o (he vt bt (e Thines. & 1o oF & preecrintion Wil e tharn VATuRbIO REEY & PCFIONAL €A- Emination of tho antinal, —Owinz to removal to ifornia 1 am cloatng aut my_ stock of Watchos and Jewelry ut leas tan or il the usunl prices at il 0NN G, ASIILE- MAN, ¥ 4 1A . MORLEY & CO., DEALERS AND SHIPPERS OF AWANM, LEHIGH, AXD BLOSSBURGH COALS, | WHOLESALE AND RETAIL, ' AT LOWEST MARKET RATES. \[um Office---97 Wi .uhm"tou st rarnnn s (flnada Fur Manufac- turing Co., Madiso lm-.;:, nnd Frank. only establishiment vy £ Eeal letc,, NEWEST D‘FSIGNS 1 Sue £pectao easulud to allaights on seleatibe Uixra x‘md Fleld Glasica, Telessopes )Im Chh.azo. "o ® New \u]l(-rh’ "Parlor Stove, for 1877, f% B0 fovt-clans b every seapict, X Fl'c".«'{f‘fl’i': EOViTh u‘)w; RIC 33 _smanrs, SHIRTS made o order from Waie ke Wrurs Pocket sutta and heavy Linen: S'm.'x ‘:{ufi.‘ m-m 6 jor $0.00, unjinlshed, . COUl\'l‘Y OI{Di‘i{s : Aud City Voucliers Bought By LAZARLS sILY| E.l(ll N, LLuoer of Lo wis B g;ar g:} gg, jlnl-rllull. 3 ; ) 1:_1',1323' 4 ‘x"b'(‘)' ¥ TR BUSOICES, = WINTER RESORT j ey " Royal Vutorm otel, | [\ l-L.llu\'l. Su) usuu w» Jtuu & N 1 113 Lzeudws ‘ l‘\"\’)‘l“k.ytu" Ll Not, in the least GREAT SALE - CHICAGO, MILIER. SILKS! Bich@oods! [MMENSE BARGAINS DURING THF EXTIRE MONTH ‘We have consummated large purchases direct from the man- ufacturers, and at Auction, and will offer SPECIAL AND RE- MARKABLE INDUCE- MENTS in Silks, Velvets, &e. ‘We will offer standard makes at lower prices than ever be- fore in this city. 500 pes. Guinet’s Popular Satin Finish Dress Silk At $1.00, $1.26, $1.60, -$1.76, $2.00 upward. TEILLARD'S BLACK SILKS! 94 INCHES WIDE, Warranted the best Silks in the market for wear, ranging in prices trom $1.60 to $4.00. SPECIAL ATTENTION is di- vected to qualities at $2, $2.50, and $3. CGLORED SILKS. Our stock of Colored Dress Silks is the largest we have ever shown, and includes every desirable Fall Shade. HANDSOME GOODS at $1, $1,10, $1.256, $1.35. and $1.60. Special attention is invited to o line of 2%-in. Colored Dress Silks, very heavy, at $1.60--- 1ast year's price of same, $2.26. VELVETS! VELVETS! 27-inch Cloaking Velvets at $3, $3.560, $4, and $4.50. Guinet's Oloaking Velvet at $8, $7, $8.60, $9, and $10. 100 pieces 18-inch Trimming Velvets at $1.25, $1.50, $1.76, and $2. Colored Velvets to crery shade o Silk, guality $2.00 and $2.50. We invite INSPECTION, and guarantee our prices the lowdst. Samples of every description sent free on application. ° Country orders promptly and accurately filled. 121 & 123 State-st. BRANCH, Michigan-ar, and Twealy-soeondsl. wateh Extra GRAND OPENING ! B VORK BOWERY: LOAN-OFFICE, 205 SOUTH CLARK-SY., NEAR ADANS. SPEOIAL LOTS OF OVERGOATS FYEe A i 11, M A oY wh 3 KINE v EaSattulted from Febe & = EAREAC RS (rom Ieee Guuds o Ve been il S A" e gl e Vil ta vover ad NEVW YORK BOWERY LOAN-OFFICE, sear Au‘nu. Chlcazo, 1. FOR RENT. DESTABLE OFFGES I TEG TRIBUNE BUILDING TO REINNT. Apply to WM. C. DOW, Room 8 Tribuae Building, llA'l D: PlLIo FASBIHIONS Now Ready. . COOPER & HENNE GEN 130 Clurkests 27-inch ALL-SILK TIIURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1877, THE FIRE. Field & Leiter's Great Re- tail Store De- stroyed. Loss on Building and Stock ‘Will Reach Ahout $1,200,000. On Which There Is Insu= pance - Amounting to About $1,100,000. -~ The Fire Broke Out Where It Did in 1878. The Fault Being with That Same Inaccessible Half-Roof. Various and Conflicting State- ments About the Origin of the Blazc.‘ How the Firemen Fought I Fall of the Blazing - Roof. The Brave Boys Caught Beneath the Buins—--One Almost In~ stantly Killed, I The Melancholy List of Kill- ed, Wounded; and Missing: The Insurance on Building and Stock---What They Man- aged to Save. Scenes and Incidents at the Conflagration==«Fire of 873, - TIHE DISASTER. THE DREAD SOUND OF THE PINE-ALARN heard last evening Just as people were entering the theatres, or golug Lome to thelr comfort- able fireskles, proved to bethe heruld of a very serjous disaster, Omitting any reference to the great conflagration which consumed the best half of Chicago, no event- of the kind has oc- curred in tho city for many years that could have awakened such an unlversal excitement as the burniug down of the great dry-gouds eatavlish- ment of Fleld, Leiter & Co. The only occur- rence that might be ll!wned to it In mportance was the hurning of the Drake Block In the sum- suer of 1870, and at that thne our citfzens had not yet supped full of the horrors which subse- quently becatne oll too famillar in their sight. ‘There was an Interest, more profound and wore general, felt In the fire of last evenlug, for everybody scems to feel that TUE ONEAT E$TABLISIIMXNT OF YIELD, LEITER & co. 18 part and parcel of tho {ndustrial prosperity of Chicago, The destruction ol such an amnount af property could not but be regarded as a dlro calamity ut such o timo as this, and so, as the news fiew round, people left theirfircaides, thelr theatres, their billiard-tables, and everything, 1o crowd to the scene of action, The simple In- timation that Field, Lelter & Co.'s placo was burniug was enongh to start everybody from thelr scats, and, before the flre had made any leadway, @ crowd had gathered which ueeded the utmost exertions of the Police DNepartment to keop in order, From cvery quarter of the city peopla Kept pouring down toward the place, untll every street lead- ing to Blate street within six blocks of the bum- ing bullding was jammed svith buman belngs of all oges, sex, aud kind, 8uch an excitement has not been witnessed here for many a year, Every fire-engane in the departinent was at the spot, playtor, and sputteging, and screamiug, and the wiide thoroughfare prescuted for several hours such - a sight -as oue might expecy to sce at' Doomsday, Nobody scemed to heel the pouring ram, or the* uddy strects, or the rushing engines and af- frighted horees, Womeun plashed through the puddics, heedlcss of the dangers involved fn wet fecty men rushed hither aud thither in tho frantic manner characteristic of humanity when under the influence of supremo publte cxuites ments; plekpockets piled thelr handicraft, aud Loys, as usual, mansged to dodgo around fu everybody's way, . It sccmed as{( tho entire clty had como down-town to witness the terri- ble scene, o THE ALABRM WAS SOUNDED from Box 25 at §:04 in the cvening, Some one had discovered fire in the ffth story of the building, which {8 situated at the corucr of Stato and Washington streets. Whoever first discov- ered the fire could not Jocate it dxactly. There was a body of flame and smnoke spoarcatly on the top of the hulldings, but whether it wos ou thu voof of Field, Lelter & Cos's bullding, or wupon that of Burley & Tysrell, adjoining on the north, could not be discovered. Tho word “fre,” puassed from mouth to mouth, and somo of those who werc ou the sldewalk rapped loudly ut the northern State street entranco to Field & Leiter’s store, aud alarmed both watchinen, Henry Dever- man, tho bead watchmau, was o the ivst floor, and was the first to auswer the summons. In company with his asslstant, Patrick Vidicr, who was st the time on the second floor, he ran to the top of the building, and néar what s kuown as the-ceutral elevator way, and about asuiall scuttie leading to the roof they dlis- covered tho fre. A TRIBUNE reportes was on the sccue early enough toseg sud loeate this opening, the fire not having caught on the inside to any extent, rave about THE ELEVATOR WAYS. At the northiern end of tho bullding are two elevators, that nearest State steet belng known 83 the central and that towards the rear the northern. The. scuttle to the rool was hetween the two, and was approacbable by o laddér aguinst the wall. A smali lron door closed this scuttle. Above was a space some four feet In nelght, This space reached all around the skylizht fn the centre of the buitd- ing, and might easily be cxplored by one crawl- ing on bands and knces, Another Iron door, dircctly above the first, opened to the roof. And it was in this space that the watch- man saw filled with fire. It spread to the central elevator, nnd then to the northern one, the grease about the wheels ond pulleys first cateling fire. A number of the employes board close at hand, and in a tew minutes a score or moreof the cinployes of the place were Lusy trylug to extinguish the fates with Bab- cock extinguishiers, and such small apparatus as they could reach. EACH FLOOK 18 SBUPPLIED WITIT 1OSE, ond 2 force-pumnp In the engine-roomn could have forced a streamn suthiclent to put out the fire, had there heen the power and ahtlity to conuect the lensths: and start the pumps. But down the elevatur-ways spread the flames with such rapldity that the emuploves were: s0n oblized 1o retreat to the fluor below, And so it continued—the fire ighting its way down from story Lo story. The majonity of the firemen were on the scene promptly after the alarm. One company. aud sovernl members of other companies were slightly delayed, belng st the time prescit at oa meetlng of the Fire Buard In Marshal Benner's room. A sece ol and thind, or what is better known as the 211 alarm, was sounded at 8:20, and 1bis brouzht to the scene all the apparatus avatlable, Marslial Renner In person located the engines, and ottended to the outslde work. Murshal Kinney was In the rear, and Marahals Stiay and Swmecnlc dbd noble work In the interlor of the butlding, THE UEIGOT PRECLUDED STREAMS OF WATER FHROM DEING TUROWN UPON TUE ROOF, and the only feasible plan rematuing was to run the hote to the upper fuoors. The Skinner escape was holsted on the State street front, aboul In the middle of the building, but v worked badly, and even wlien erccted reached only to the fourth ‘floor, This was per- plexing to the firemen, The only re- maintng wav was to run the hose through the centre of the buildiug. One of the fron doors was forved off and the hose run directly to the centre of the building, where 1t was drawn through an open court up to the third and fourth flours. And from varlous points which they took up the brase firemen played upon the heat und fury of the fire until elther stricken down by falling plaster dnd rafters, suffocated by the sinoke, or driven from thelr poeitions by heat. ‘Thie court fn the centre of the baflding, tome 40x90 fcet in dimensions, extends clear to o bulls-eved skylight in the roof. About this court on cack floor was a wooden ralling. The sizo of the court decreascs slightly fo dlmen- slons on the upper floors, end consequently the ciuders and burning Jolsts of the ffth floor fell upon the floor below, as also did the burning ralling. And to this fact is perhaps aus the spread of the tire downward, TIHE FIGHT BEGINS, THE PIIST ALARM came from Box 25, located ou the corner of olph and State strects, at 8:04. The steaficrs within the district, six In number, were soon ou the ground, 8moke was then coming out of the north end of the bulldidy, snd an oc- caslonal flash 'of flame could be scon o the fitth floor from the strect. The firc-cscape was run up, but was too short by twenty fect toreach the top of the structurc, The ladder was therefore placed azainst o fourth-story window, and pipemen qulckly mounted with hose. Other firemen took positions on top of Burley & Tyrrell's store adjolning, and hales were cut in tho roof of the burning stricture, the fire haviog gotten in between the cefling and the reof. Others apaln dragsed hose into the bulldivg and up the stalrways. Great difliculty was experienced tn getting in- side. - The 1rou doors on Stato strecthad to be chopped open. This, it s aaid, took ten minutes. The six streams throwing on the flames at twenty minutes after elght had no noticeable effect, ‘The fire graduatly spread south, and east, the wind havioz shifted, Tne flames having caten thelr way once to the rotunda roof, large pleces of blazing timber began falliog to the frst floor, 14 was apparent that MOKE HELF, AND A GREAT DEAL OF IT, was uccessary. 8o a second aud third combina. tion slarin was turued In, and this brought twelve wmore steamers to the scenes The ad- vantaze of double fire hydrantas was now shown, for no !css than six steauers were able to get all tho water they could bandle from those on the cortters of Statoand Washington strects. ‘The ruinforcements wero placed to the best ad- vantage by Fire-Marshial Denner, somo of the men guing ub to the ifth story with the hose, the south end of the bufiding, faving Washing- ton street, being at this tlme—twenty minutes of O—comuaratively free from fire, though it was full of dense smoke. The men faced this bravely unt@l they were driven out. They then stationed . themselves on the fourth floor at the rotunda ralling, and, dirccting the streams upward, did all the exccution possivle. It was evident, however, even at this time that the ereater portlon of the bullding was doomed. Largo pleces of buru- {ngg timbers fell continually from the yoof to the first floor, but they were quickly extin. guished by firemen with Babeocks. Prescntly A CHANIL WAS HIEARD, snil, when {1 become known that a portion of the roof had fallen o, the firemen on the fourth Buor were ondered down to the floor below, Aund they went from floor to floor until balf-past 9 o'clock, when the whole of the fifth floor and tho ruof, and a portlon of the fourth Hoor, be- fug ublaze, they wese tuld by Deputy-Superin- teudeut Dixon to GET OUT INTO TUB STREET, ‘There were others iu tho bullding also, clerks and policemen, and they too -left {n a hurry. Scarcely half bad reached the sdewalk wheu auoglier crash was heard, and inafew uoments three or four firemen were brooght out by thefr cowrndes. Ono was sccmingly dead, and the others badly hurt, By twenty minutes of 10 every one who hag becs fnilde, so far 8 knowt, exvept the two caught in tho clevator, had sought safety in fight. Y 10 0'CLOCK the flre had reached its eveatest heignt, when, bursting through the- upper windows n both frouts of the bullding, 1t Lt up the city for miles around. By the time the fremeu bad removed thelr streams from the futerior to the outside, and by putting on extra steam somg of the enzines wers able to send fulr streams into the topmost windows. But the ioajority fell short, Soit coutinued to burn, ragiug wost ficgeely mbout the clevator ways, uutil 11 o'clock, from which time it couunenced to wane. : ———— DEAD AND WOUNDED, SERIES OF FATAL ACCIDESTS. Tho sccueut ¥ o'clock, an bour after tho glarm, was awful iu the trucst seusc of the word. Already tho Bawes had eaveloped tho frame-work about the roof, and the fire on the two uppeg toors was Blliug the futerlor of the 4 e Ihicangn Duilp Tribmne, PRIC“ FIVE CLN'I‘S store with massive firc-brands. It was greatly fearcd that theso would fire the building from the Jower floors, and the Marshals began to de- spair of conquering. Great care was taken, however, and several atreams of water were kept dirccted wupon the space where these brands fell thickest, and in this way alonc was the entire building saved from destruction. At 3 few minutes after 9 o'clock a. mass of studdlngs, hot plaster. and other wooawork fell from floor to flooron the northern side of the buflding near the stalrway, avd between the two elevators. It was of no great welzht, and it Is hard to account for its fall. Un the eccond and third Qoors there were two streams of water belue directed up the elevator ways, The pipemen wers directly under the falling mass, and with a pitiful yenl they WENT DOWN WITH TIIE BURNING MA5S. A moment later onc of them wus rescucd, but hewas onlyable to breathe, *18," the num- ber of his company. He was badly brufsed abaut Lhe chest aud shoulders, and had fallen from the third foor. Ten minutes clapsed be- fore any one could get near this burning mass, and then some firemen marde bold to rash in and rescue oneof thefr brethren. This was Dudiey, the ex-fireman, and he died reveral mioutes atter beinz taken out. During all this tline counlt be heard heartrending though smothereil cries of " save M, ronr aon's sakn!" & Help, O, flod! I'm burning1* and then came plercing shirieks as If of great budily pain. This shouting continued for nearly Giteen minutes, and those who were compelled to stand within bearine distance, 5t contd not for thelr lives render assistatcen 1o the poor creatures who were dying the most painful of deaths, hope never arain to be in a shnilar position. - Mdrshal Bhay was among the number, Oucean attempt was mude st resete, by entting through a stalr. way, butit was ipefficctual. The crica grew louder, then suddenly . decreased, gl all that could be heard after were groaus and eries at slight intervals. How many poor souls went up In this liolocauat can only be pueesed. Thecrles indicated that there were at least two persons. Just as the groaus ecemed todic the flames sud- deuly burst from the third floor with redoulled vigor, and the upper part became a lurid, indle- tinguishable space. The skylighit began to fall fu scctions, and it beeame dangerons for any one to reioadn Jonger within the doors ot the doomed structure, THE ROLL. Four of thewounded und one dead man were takea to Dr. C. W, Purdy's office, corner of State and Madizon strects, and that physician and Dr, E. 1L Horzey rolled up thelr slecves to attend to the unfortunate men. CIARLES A, DUDLEY, a large and finc-lvoking man of about 3% years, was taken ont of the muss of ruins gasping for breath, nud giving every evidence that he was suffucated, and that death was upon hiw, Ile was placed In a carriage on. the Wash- imgton strect elde of the bumlug structure, andeonveyed to Dr. Pards's office. On the way hie moaned falntly, and died shortly after reach- fug the place. ~ His body lay upon the floor. His face worc a natural and reslgned expression, even fndeath, It was some time before his identity became established. A letterot recom- mendation from Fire-Marshal Benner was found in his cont pocket, tozether with others of a simitar kind, and when a TribuNz reporter called the attention of Licut. Sharenberg and Plpeman ~ Pumpbry %o the faw, they stated that he woa Licutenant of Engine Company No. 23 about a yoaraud s ball ago, and left theelty to go to San Francisco. Hle returned a few months ago, but they did mnot kunow whkat business he was encaged In at the time. ft was subsc- quently learned that he was on duty with No. 17. He was a single man, ana had been well liked by his companfons fa the Fire Depart. ment. Up to 10 o’clock last night his reshdence hnd not been learceq, aml the body was sent to the Morgue until dis liteuds should call for it. Dudlcey beinz past all human ald, the doctors quickly began the examiuation of the wounded. JENOME BAILEY, a plpeman of No. 18, was badlv, but not danger- ously, wounded about the head, face, nnd upper portion of the budy, His fnJuries werd attended to, and ho was placed in o carrlage and con- veyed to lifs home near 15's house, FRANK PLANAGAN, « pipeman ot Engine )» was on the third floor when the crash came, und went down in tho rulns amidst dense clouds ol smoke and fire. Tle was burped about the face and hands, wounded on the nght temple, recefved severe and dangerous internal fnjurles, and bad one of his fect crushed. o is o larze aad powerful man, and, like all the others, bore tho palns foflicted on him with great tortitude. 1l was conveyed o his home at No. 825 West Taylor strect, where he bias o family. . LIEUT, JONN SHANNDENRG, of Eneine No, 6, was found to be tnjured dan- eerously fu the abdomen, und two of tho ribs on his left side wero fractured, After re- celving ottention from the physiclans he was placea In o carrfaze and takeu to lis home at No. 600 South Jefferson street. Hols a married man. HOBBRT TAYNE, colored, pineman of Nu, 21, was injured about tho head und face severely, but uot dangerous. 1y, After recetving attention he wanted to go back to bis company, When the crash cume he was on the east side of the third Hoor, aud sue- ceeded fn getting out of thoe ruines after great cxertion. He barely escaped auffucation. Othiers were injured who were attended clse- where, TOE OTHERS. Patrick Smith, who was assisting In getiing out goods, was slightly hurt by the falling of the stairway on the third foor. Johu Fletcher, colured, pluoman of No, 21, was severely injured on the bead and burned about the fuce and hands. Robert Crane, colored, pipeman of No. 21, was dangerously injured fnternally. Ho was re- moved to his home, Alphonse Campion, an employo of the up- holetery departinent of tho burned store, was struck upon the head by a plece of fulling timber ang badly burt. MIS3ING PIREMEN. Bailey reported that, Eugeno 8weeney, pipe- man-of No. 18, was with hlm when the floor {el), and stated that, as be did not sce blm get out; ho belicved ho was suffocated by tho denso smoke. Up to Jatdst advices uo report coutra- dictory of the above had been recelved, Jolin O'Rourke, a pipeman of No. 6, was amoug the men who weunt down in the rufo, and at 11 o'clock to-uight Le hud not becu beand from, It was feared he was suftucated. Eugene Sweeney, of Engine No, 16, mentfon- ed clsewhere as misstug, succeeded o getting -out of tle bullding, but was so badly fvjured internally that he bad to be taken bowe, - Abput o quarter after 11 o'clock o man was scen to come Lo the sixth window on the fourth floyr of tha Washiogton strect front, aud Jean out'for a mowent aud then apparently fall back. Hobadno hat on, and may not have beca O'RRourke, but as he i3 the only ono known 10 be missing, ft ts thouzht it was b, Capt. Ben Bullwinkle, of the Fire Patrol com- pauics, Infornpd a TRIBUNE reporter last night that it was bis tirin beliet that due of the fre- men bad fallen lnto#the arteslan well fu thé Bortheast mr,wr of the bullding, — BURLEY & ’D\'Ill!ELD. A CLOYK CALL. Tho Mvelivat juterest takeu fu tho fro was by the firs of Burley & Tyrrell, the crockery, glassware, aud gas fxtures wen, next duoor uorth of the burniog building. The bultdiue is atall om y packed from basement to toof with varf & rticles in tho line of the husincss, the low¢ . @ T bheing devoted natarally to the nnm ;r crockery, hronzes, sitver-plate, %hc fire was at it4 height, the firm bnmm aralty and properly alarmed, and drew {182 D hie clerks on kand to carry away the hooks (€3 ther contents of thelr safe. About this § Mr. Tyrrell was mniled up agatni counter for a fraction of a winul t persuaded to explaln that his stook waz, al a rough wuess, $200,000, and his insure ance 150,000, The latter item he was the more sure of as he liad atteniled to the placing of it himeclf, Jtwas good, ho thought, and, bLe- Heving that, he was satfaflea to abide the result. The happy ending of the conflazration (that fs, happy to the nclghbors) leads Burley & Tyrrell to think they will get off with a breakage aud water aceount, which is so smally compared with what they wight havo lost, os to be almost unworthy of meution, ' TUE EARLY PARLT OF THR FIONT with the fire was confined to the work done from thd roof of Burley & Tyrreli’s store. With a curlous and gimost Inexplieable teudency to get Into a plaze whers he hud po hustueas to be, A Triness ereporter worked In_between some firemen who were oine up. and was landed very short in the windand lame on the roofs 1t was the grandest sight of a lfetine,—It one dlan’t mind smoke go thick that (¢ coulid be cut with a knife. ‘The reporter fakes no eredit to himself that, once up, he coughed vut the smoke and went up to the wall ana looked over to the roof of the Field & Leiter bullding, which was then well ‘alight, specially at the northern elide. The firemen were pouring Laiie Michizau over into the holes about every ten minutes, bt it scemed to do no good, and the only result was no end of snoke. The ficht from this roof was ¢ hard one, and the resuls unrdly showed in the result. MARSHALL TIELD, A BRIEE STATZMENT. About 10:3) v'clock 0 TRIBUNE Tcporter ran acrose Mr. Marshalt Field on State street, (lo was razing intently on the destruction that was ot umy but he dld not scem to show suy [ Iy was pleasant wnd cordial us usual, and reavetted the destruction. He satd 1t was bard to Justly esitmate cither the loss or ealvage ot thot time. What was not burned was Im\louhkmll)' thorouzhly dreached by water. They ¢arried astock In their rewail house at thls tine varying from §1,105,00 to £1,200,000. This was In part In case guods ol a cheaper sort v were stored in the basement. This was stocked fall, and an eatimute an 1y 1is value could not be made. Hone much it was damaged he could not tell Thiclr total ineuraucs was about 1,000,000, scat- terediucompanies in England, Germany, France, and America, A lnewas held in the Fast, and perliaps a very Httle fu home compunles. Thele wmnost vuluable stock was on the ground floor, conslstlng of laces, silks, shawls, ete. “Tlie sitk atock, which was the larrest amd most valuable, was lnnediately under the rotunda, aud, of courre, the greatest portion of it was lost. What was not burned was thoroughly drenched with water. The proportion of stock abuve Insurance was probably from 10 to 15 per cent. Thelr opening of fall stuck teok piaco last month, and they usunliy carried thelr larg- eat stock In November sod December, so for as the retail trade was coucerned. FHOM ANOTUEI GENTLEMAX counected with the estabiishment the informa- tion wrs cleancd that the stock on tho first floor was probubly worth one-liatf of the cutire contents of the buildiug, or about' §500,000, about §150,000 of which was in ailks alone. Of thls, probably 23,00 to §30,000 was saved. The first floor contalned the hoslery, white goods, gents' furnishivg, silk coods, Lannels, and no- tions departmenty, while the next foor wis used for clouk, ladics’ suits, ladies’ underwear, and fofants’ vutfit store-room. The next fluor contalned -carpots, upholstery, and’ beddiug, The carpet stock Is suld to have heen worth £1£0,000, and the stock in the busement was estimated at shout 200,000, but how wmuch of it |a saved 1o ono ax yet can tell. TIE TOP OF THB. NUILIING was used as cloak-making, dress-waking, and upholstery manufucturlny departuents, Tho cloakmaking busineas employed about 200 girls, under charzeof Miss Cox. In the manufuc- turing departinents there wero ¢mployed about 100 girls, and between 500 und 600 mates and [cmalcs, s clerks, sulesmen, porters, ete. All these, for the tine being, ure thrown out of cmployment. After the fire had been well under control a TiuxNe reporter again saw Mr. Field, SOWIL (his work any serious loss to you ! #alll the reporter, *Yess it s the loss taour bushicss which wo regret,!? 1w soou will you reopend” *Give us timo to breathe.” #You will have another store soon, I supe e Wo shall - aunounce that 04 BOON 83 WO Br0 ready.” THE ORIGIN, DUTT'S STORT. After on [nguiry anto the cause of the fira mmong varlous and sundry, Tne TRIBUKE mun wus fortunste cvough to find Mr, Sam Doy, o respousible tlerk who was on baud when (ur shortly alter) the firo broke out: Mr. Doty's story was very clear and straightforwand. e sald in effect that ho was on the ground {ur in the store) amone the first, aud saw un carly part of the couflagration, When ho flrst saw the Heht It was at the iead of the first (or pas- senger) elevator, ubout the , middls , of the morth - eide of the bulldlnz, At that time thero was only @ snull blaze by comparison, and ho thought hiwsedl abte to put it out. 8o belleving, be caugut up an extinguisher and then another, untfl he Lad omptied three upon tho flames, Befug asked these questions, the unswers weres Do you know where the fire started I" W1 kuow ft sturtea ut thetop of the west clevator on the west side,” 4 Not at ttie bottom 1" & Certaluly not. 1 saw it among tho first, and T am suru it was atles up above beforv there wad avy fire down balow," #Could it not have come up the clevators" «Tt would have been more lkely to go down, and £ um sure as poasible that there was na firy below the top Boor whea I caught -l;.m. of it» #What could possibly bave caused a firo it the top of au elevator?” 1 dou't know, 1 am suro; 1 have no ides, unluss It be that about tho big wheel at tho top of the elevator was a box of viled razs or wasts und somo oil. 1 have heaad that lhuy sometluies fzuite by spoutancous combition.” Just then the dome fell sud tho gentlemen who were before talking so amicably ovor the matter went away in baste. The clerk made for tho door, aud the reporter, not baving suf- | ficlent topogrupbicat knowledge, ran to tha pearest window, and Kicked out a paue. Nu loss of lfe there, ANOTHER, In mmh of facts about the origia of tne fire 8 repogter usked s gentleman connceteq with the § kuvw about the b-.glnuhn.- about ke this 4 1 didn tho fire just exactly what you imight ca]l start) but I eaw it pretty soou thero- after, Iwason|top of the bullding on the southcast copucs of BState and Washington atrects,—tho jewelry store, youy know, .In the The answer was | coruer nearest to mie was thp room for.thy sewlug-machine girl,—on the Washingtoa ¢t front, you kuow,—they bud their little aud thelr machines there, and there thiv i R R A A A AR T zer Bowing Machine Company what he - § £